The first argument seems to suggest the writer considers
modern cosmology to be folk lore instead of considered science.
The big bang does not represent the boundary between something
and nothing. In this, that is, in the modern view, the
uncreated first cause isn't a conscious god, it is a soup of
boring sameness. Yes, something always was.

Consciousness not coming from something non-conscious has not been
shown, the opposite has been theorized over.
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